We performed a comparison between AWS WAF and The Fastly Next-Gen WAF (powered by Signal Sciences) based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Web Application Firewall (WAF) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."It's simple, easy to use."
"The most valuable feature of AWS WAF is its highly configurable rules system."
"The ease of deployment of the product is valuable to me."
"It is a one-click WAF with no effort needed."
"AWS WAF is very easy to use and configure on AWS."
"Stable and scalable web application firewall. Setting it up is straightforward."
"The solution is stable."
"Their technical support has been quite good."
"The product's most valuable feature is its ability to set up the rules easily."
"When configuring a web application firewall using Signal Sciences, we configure a rule whereby no one except a few people can access the application."
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"On the UI side, I would like it if they could bring back the geolocation view on the corner."
"Technical support for AWS WAF needs improvement."
"The serverless product from AWS WAF could be improved. For example, they have only one serverless series, Lambda, but they should extend and improve it. Additionally, the firewall rules are not very easy to configure."
"The solution could be more reliable."
"We haven't faced any problems with the solution."
"The product could be improved by expanding the weightage units of rules."
"It will be helpful if the product recommends rules that we can implement."
"For now, there is no feature to protect against attack of the bad bots"
"Even if we create some custom rules, Signal Sciences cannot capture some of the malicious traffic."
"The areas that could be improved in Signal Sciences include the effectiveness of rules, as many didn't function optimally and required custom rule-writing to address bypasses for WAF."
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AWS WAF is ranked 1st in Web Application Firewall (WAF) with 52 reviews while The Fastly Next-Gen WAF (powered by Signal Sciences) is ranked 28th in Web Application Firewall (WAF) with 2 reviews. AWS WAF is rated 8.0, while The Fastly Next-Gen WAF (powered by Signal Sciences) is rated 7.0. The top reviewer of AWS WAF writes "A highly stable solution that helps mitigate different kinds of bot attacks and SQL injection attacks". On the other hand, the top reviewer of The Fastly Next-Gen WAF (powered by Signal Sciences) writes "A good solution to implement web application firewall for applications". AWS WAF is most compared with Azure Web Application Firewall, Microsoft Azure Application Gateway, Imperva Web Application Firewall, F5 Advanced WAF and Cloudflare Web Application Firewall, whereas The Fastly Next-Gen WAF (powered by Signal Sciences) is most compared with Cloudflare, Akamai App and API Protector, Microsoft Azure Application Gateway, Azure Web Application Firewall and Imperva Web Application Firewall. See our AWS WAF vs. The Fastly Next-Gen WAF (powered by Signal Sciences) report.
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